Yukimura made her debut with the song "Omoide no Warutsu" (想い出のワルツ, "Till I Waltz Again with You") in 1953.

Her style of singing varied from jazz to rock and roll.

She became one of the three most popular female singers in the early postwar Japan, along with Chiemi Eri and Hibari Misora.

[1] On her 1974 album Super Generation, she sang Ryoichi Hattori's songs along with four popular musicians: Masataka Matsutoya, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hayashi and Haruomi Hosono.

In 2004, their album including those songs was finally released for the first time.